| Bill Coon | |
| Birth Date: | 10 July 1959[1] |
| Birth Place: | Etobicoke, Ontario |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Occupation: | Musician, composer, educator |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Label: | Cellar Live |
| Associated Acts: | Miles Black, Brad Turner, Lonnie Smith, Oliver Gannon, Jodi Proznick |
Bill Coon is a Canadian jazz and composer. He is a Juno nominated artist and the winner of the 2009 National Jazz Awards, ‘Guitarist of the Year’.[2] [3] He is known for performing artists such as Miles Black and Jodi Proznick (as Triology),[4] Lonnie Smith,[5] Brad Turner,[6] Peter Bernstein, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ian McDougall, P. J. Perry, Sheila Jordan, Phil Dwyer, Peter Washington, and Oliver Gannon.[7] His compositions and arrangements have been commissioned by large ensembles such as the CBC Radio Orchestra, John Korsrud's Hard Rubber Orchestra, and the Dal Richards Orchestra.[8] He graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Jazz Studies in 1988, and a Masters of Education from Simon Fraser University in 2012.
A recipient of multiple Canada Council for the Arts awards, he has studied with Jim Hall, Neil Chotem,[1] and Louis Stewart.[2]
He is a faculty member at Capilano University,[9] as well as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music.
Coon is married to band leader and former trombonist Jill Townsend.[10]